[Anime] Black Bullet

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AnimeNewsNetwork wrote...
In the year 2021, mankind was defeated by Gastrea, a parasitical virus, and is forced to live within a wall made of Baranuim monoliths, a metal that is able to subdue Gastrea. Soon, the "Cursed Children", children born infected with the Gastrea virus who are able to control them which gives them superhuman abilities, was discovered. Due to the Gastrea virus' intervention, the Cursed Children could only be female. Civil Securities are formed to specialize fighting against Gastrea, operating with the pair of an Initiator, who are cursed children, and a Promoter, serving to lead the cursed children. Ten years after the war, Rentarō Satomi, a high school student who is also a Promoter in his childhood friend Kisara Tendō's Tendō Civil Security, along with his Initator Enju Aihara, receives a secret mission to prevent the Tokyo Area's destruction.


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I was excited when they announced that Black Bullet will be animated. I was so happy that it made my manga-reading time at that time more worthwhile. Anywho, from the special chapter about the anime announcement in the manga, there'll be some new characters in the anime that have yet to appear in the manga. The LN's definitely way ahead of the manga so those characters may have already appeared. Then again, I'm too lazy to read LN's. Also, the MCs' anime art style is somewhat a lot different from the manga. They still look good though. Looking forward to this one definitely.
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It certainly looks good
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Oooh, I forgot about this show. I even made the manga thread for it. Gotta catch up.
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Tsamari C.E.O of Pancakes
[color=#ff69b4]I'm getting a Darker then Black feel from looking at this so I will be watching this.
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Because the intro completely betrayed my expectations! ~sniff~
I was really expecting the series to continue that tone, but the second the opening broke out... My jaw dropped...

So I will now nitpick everything that bugged me, ignoring individual characters, out of annoyance and a broken heart.

first episode
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-For an experienced fighter, with a gun already pointed at the perpetrator, to trow aside(or holster, they don't show what he did with it) and instead charge in and attempt to fight in melee combat....
-Ignoring the 2 trained and mangled swat members behind the hostile...
-And announcing his moves before he strikes...
-Really?
-Back up charges in, and stands in the open without cover, also announcing their attack...

-Okay, normal police (government officials) can't do, literally, anything to stop the monsters...
-Takes special bullets and loli's to kill the monsters...
-All of which are privately owned/contracted... why?! How come the police can't get these bullets?

-They are the only ones who can kill these monsters, but no one pays them enough to live off of? Really?
-Even the police weasels out of paying them... how broke is their government, cause the "good city and their police force" looks damn nice.
-They have time to go to school on top of their barely paying day job? Just depart from the school setting already... seriously.
-There's no point in owning the office, especially if there poor, they could work from home using cellphones to pick up contracts... since the contracts seem to be formed on such flimsy verbal agreements that can be taken back. I can't imagine them having paper work.

Putting the last 2 sets together, the government can't recruit these guys with a pay rate equal to law enforcement? Normally, organized governments don't let dangerous individuals walk around with weapons that even their own law enforcement lacks...

-They're all female... Why... nvm... I'll ignore this one...

-I kinda wanted to try that purple stuff...

-There are 2 working bridges on both sides, when they zoom out, was there any meaning to riding up to the end of the broken one in the middle? I first thought it represented a wall dividing the city, but it becomes meaningless when they show the other bridges...


I will admit, some of the art in the series I find interesting, like the overview of the city at the end of the first episode, and a couple of the backgrounds.
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Episode 1 was fantastic. Episode 2 is so far away that I'm gonna be bored waiting for it. I'll get more excited for sure when they reach the part that the manga hasn't covered what the LN already has. Also, that Enju~ <3

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bakapink wrote...
Because the intro completely betrayed my expectations! ~sniff~
I was really expecting the series to continue that tone, but the second the opening broke out... My jaw dropped...

So I will now nitpick everything that bugged me, ignoring individual characters, out of annoyance and a broken heart.

first episode
Spoiler:
-For an experienced fighter, with a gun already pointed at the perpetrator, to trow aside(or holster, they don't show what he did with it) and instead charge in and attempt to fight in melee combat....
-Ignoring the 2 trained and mangled swat members behind the hostile...
-And announcing his moves before he strikes...
-Really?
-Back up charges in, and stands in the open without cover, also announcing their attack...

-Okay, normal police (government officials) can't do, literally, anything to stop the monsters...
-Takes special bullets and loli's to kill the monsters...
-All of which are privately owned/contracted... why?! How come the police can't get these bullets?

-They are the only ones who can kill these monsters, but no one pays them enough to live off of? Really?
-Even the police weasels out of paying them... how broke is their government, cause the "good city and their police force" looks damn nice.
-They have time to go to school on top of their barely paying day job? Just depart from the school setting already... seriously.
-There's no point in owning the office, especially if there poor, they could work from home using cellphones to pick up contracts... since the contracts seem to be formed on such flimsy verbal agreements that can be taken back. I can't imagine them having paper work.

Putting the last 2 sets together, the government can't recruit these guys with a pay rate equal to law enforcement? Normally, organized governments don't let dangerous individuals walk around with weapons that even their own law enforcement lacks...

-They're all female... Why... nvm... I'll ignore this one...

-I kinda wanted to try that purple stuff...

-There are 2 working bridges on both sides, when they zoom out, was there any meaning to riding up to the end of the broken one in the middle? I first thought it represented a wall dividing the city, but it becomes meaningless when they show the other bridges...


I will admit, some of the art in the series I find interesting, like the overview of the city at the end of the first episode, and a couple of the backgrounds.



I understand where you're coming from, but what do you expect from the beginning may I ask? Scratch that, I shouldn't ask such a thing. And as for your little rant, I do understand that some parts are definitely questionable especially since this is just the first episode. As much as I want to counter-argue against your rant, I'll learn to keep my jimmies unrustled since I've already read the manga of this beforehand so I understand your confusion assuming that you haven't read either the LN or the manga.
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[11:40:30] Anton: Black Bullet seems promising
[11:41:08] Anton: It had a bunch of famous VA like Kiritsugu from Zero, Yukine from Noragami, and Hanekawa
[11:41:22] Anton: and it has lolis eating bread

This is mid-top tier. The only good thing is the loli. And why didn't he shot the masked Kiritsugu?
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Well I read the manga and it was promising but the main protagonist is not as powerful as i imagined with the first boss being easily beaten what kind of story do you guys think will develop
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Odamust wrote...
I understand where you're coming from, but what do you expect from the beginning may I ask? Scratch that, I shouldn't ask such a thing. And as for your little rant, I do understand that some parts are definitely questionable especially since this is just the first episode. As much as I want to counter-argue against your rant, I'll learn to keep my jimmies unrustled since I've already read the manga of this beforehand so I understand your confusion assuming that you haven't read either the LN or the manga.


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The opening greatly reminded me of an opening sequence to a Armor Core game, which lead to an excited and very optimistic disposition for me. An army was fighting against massive monsters, amongst a ruin city, crash landing in the midst of an heavily occupied shelter filled with people seeming of poor health and environment.

-With the army, I expected something along a military/armed citizen backdrop.
-With the monsters, a organized counter militia struggling to defend from them.
-With the destruction, a greatly prolonged battle preceding the intro.
-With the poverty, a type of, "I haven't been able to contact the next city over for a week now" struggle for survival.
-The landing of the monster in the middle of the shelter, had me expecting a strong undertone of the mortality of humans.
-The protagonist quoting his fathers words... well.. I didn't think anything particular about it.

I realize I was being overly bitter... I suppose it's due to the fact that, I was hoping for something different and deeper on top of my newly established expectations, but it turned into the type of series, with elements, I've seen so many times that it is starting to get on my bad side.

-Fighting loli reminding me of to many series to count.
-The step sibling scenario, seems to closely match Kure-nai, and I don't expect to enjoy this series as much.
-Underage protagonist that doesn't act in any manner that would afford his position, too many series to list.
-Despite his gun and training, flashy martial art sequences favored over any of the more logical approaches in hostile environments. (I wouldn't have a problem with, if more series tried approaching this more seriously).
-The "poverty" cliche, that I really don't expect to have an effect on the characters dept once again.
-A no one but Main, and a few more insignificant others, by comparison, can fight the bad guys.

My heighten expectations and desire met with something I need a bit of patients to watch, caused a huge upset for me... Writing this out, I see that, I still stand by my previous stated opinions, but expecting everything to be "top quality" (for example Blood+) and becoming upset and bitter over it not being, is childish. I have no intention of taking away others enjoyment, I just wanted to vent those feelings.

I can guess a few of the counter argument...
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-The fighting style is more powerful than his gun against humans.
-Only loli can craft the bullets.
-A loli has to choose a companion.
-Their all girls because only women can give birth.
-There are government contracted loli's, but won't be revealed till much later on.
-Protag, out of guilt, wants loli to experience a normal Japanese school life.
-There are more people working for their office, still don't think this justifies the office tho.
-The purple stuff really doesn't taste good.
-Road blocks on the working bridges... but that being the case, what was the meaning of him going their there, then to the end of the bridge, for them to then the "zoom out". I understand the character did that for the audience, but other than introducing the loli's and backdrop, but was their there any significance outside of it that, was the "wall" metaphor not really there and was I am reading too much into it?

If you want to spoil or pm me the answers your holding back on, go ahead, I expect this series to be 13 episodes, so I assume it will gloss over the beginning of the series main story, and as long as it's not the end of the VN.
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Ammy wrote...
Just finished watching episode one. I thought it was good. Definitely added to my watch list.

[size=28][color=#9D0A0A]ENJU-CHAN IS INDEED A QUALITY RORI. BEST RORI SO FAR.[/color]
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As usual, MainCharacter-kun is a faggot with pleb taste. The black haired girl was good too but how could he not want such a glorious loli?
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bakapink wrote...

I can guess a few of the counter argument...
Spoiler:
-The fighting style is more powerful than his gun against humans.
-Only loli can craft the bullets.
-A loli has to choose a companion.
-Their all girls because only women can give birth.
-There are government contracted loli's, but won't be revealed till much later on.
-Protag, out of guilt, wants loli to experience a normal Japanese school life.
-There are more people working for their office, still don't think this justifies the office tho.
-The purple stuff really doesn't taste good.
-Road blocks on the working bridges... but that being the case, what was the meaning of him going their, then to the end of the bridge, then the "zoom out". I understand the character did that for the audience, but other than introducing the loli's and backdrop, but was their significance outside of it, was the "wall" metaphor not really there and I am reading too much into it?

If you want to spoil or pm me the answers your holding back on, go ahead, I expect this series to be 13 episodes, so I assume it will gloss over the beginning of the series main story, and as long as it's not the end of the VN.


I could say that a few (if not some) of your guesses are spot on. Not gonna say which one because I am that mean, as well as some of which are pretty obvious for some people. And I wouldn't want to correct you on some of your guesses because it'll ruin the surprises that'll come ahead as the story goes on. Not only that, there'd be a possibility where my corrections may be wrong too because the manga covered only a few of what the LN has (I'm lazy to read walls of text so bite me). So it might be wise to not spoil it for now.

Also, you can't just expect things you wanted from the first episode. Some animes did fulfill our expectations from the first episode and then things just went downhill a few to some episodes later. Heck, maybe even during the last episode in certain cases. Because as you know, expectations≠reality generally. Of course, being a guy who wants to avoid arguments, I'll stay calm and see how things progress. The LN is still ongoing though, so there might be an alternate ending assuming your guess about the show having 13 episodes is true.
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Can't really dislike this anime thus far, covered it's points really quickly, goodish premise with plenty to work with and even if the anime flops I'll end up picking up the manga anyways. Plus Enju is smoking.
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Misaki_Chi Fakku Nurse
I watched the first episode recently and I have to say this looks interesting. I love Enju Aihara, she is just too adorable for her own good! Will add this to my list of series to keep up with.
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I can't take this series seriously to how they're trying so had to justify the need that all themz parasite busting people are women. And that they're all lolis from the looks of it, until fully grown one is shown.

Other than that, this show is another shounen filler of the season. Not that i'm complaining since the animation quality is pretty up there.
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Misaki_Chi Fakku Nurse
Episode 2

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I am really starting to like this series. I like the dark undertones with the children who are suppose to be humanities savior also being condemed to suffer because of their curse.

I also really like the villian Kagetane Hiruko and his daughter Kohina Hiruko is my favorite yandere loli (>w<)

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Misaki_Chi wrote...


Well she's not really a yandere, but she's definitely got a good smile running for her.

Good episode, pretty mixed feelings about Hiruko but they seem to be upfront about him which I appreciate.
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Episode 2
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Another good episode. I swear, some things are good when they're animated. They also gave a little info about the Promoter rankings, as well as Initiator types. Can't wait for the next episode.
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I don't know about the anime, but the light novel was one of the most nail biting stories I've ever read. Every single book it released had battles and circumstances so grim and epic that it feels like THE Final Battle every single time.

So it's way too early to scrutinize its flaws right now. Things will scale very quickly.
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animefreak_usa Child of Samael
I have no idea why i keep waiting for non soggysubs rip... never no nudes. Sad story bro.
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Episode 2 was good.
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Meanwhile we have this faggot over here and his goddamn loli asylum.
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We all know what's really going down.
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